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General Notes: According to Justin Hayward in the interview on the DVD An Audience with Justin Hayward at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he joined the Moody Blues in August 1966. Therefore, the marmalade-skies website seems to be a bit late in the reporting of Laine's departure and Hayward's joining, both according to Hayward and the September 28 show noted below. In the oft-told
(by Justin Hayward) story, he was replying to an ad in "Melody Maker"
for a guitarist. The advertiser turned out to be Eric Burdon,
who,
having found the replacement he needed, forwarded the whole bag full of
respondents to the Moodies. As told in the video/DVD Legend of a
Band,
Hayward's name was the first out of the bag. In the radio
interview "A
Moody Blues Special - On the Threshold of a Dream" which aired sometime
in 1973, Graeme Edge tells a slightly different version of the story, |
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TOUR DATES |
VENUES |
SET LIST |
NOTES |
March, 1966 |
Single Bye-Bye Bird / Stop released |
Single release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985 p. 3-5. |
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March 7, 1966 |
TV appearance on French ORTF1 "Douches écossaises" |
Media appearance noted at www.petulaclark.net/tv/frenchtv.html, reported by Joyce Kelley. |
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March 17, 1966 |
Filmed TV appearance on Dick Clark's "Where The Action Is" at Royal Albert Hall, London |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk, reported by Jens Pruess. |
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April 3, 1966 |
Wembley Arena, Wembley (London) |
Record Star Show from programme and ticket, reported by Joyce Kelley. The Moodies shared the bill with Manfred Mann, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Spencer Davis Group, and many others. |
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May 1, 1966 |
Oasis,
Manchester |
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Show date and
venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
reported by Jens Pruess. |
May 2, 1966 |
Tiles Club,
London |
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Show date and
venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
reported by Jens Pruess. |
May 30, 1966 |
The Pavilion, Bath |
Show date and venue from a poster, reported by Joyce Kelly. The show was advertised as "Whit Monday Special" |
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June 15, 1966 |
Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley |
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Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk Reported by Jens Pruess. |
June 21, 1966 |
Wadham
Commemorative Ball, Oxford University, Oxford |
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The Moodies shared the bill with John Bird, Steam Packet and Icen Colyer according to an Oxford University student magazine called “Oxymoron”, reported by Val Weston. |
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June 24, 1966 |
Ram Jam Club,
London |
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Show date and
venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk
Reported by Jens Pruess. |
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July 14, 1966 |
Locarno, Coventry |
First concert with Rod Clarke on bass, after Clint Warwick left the band. Noted in VH-1 Rock Stars Encyclopedia, reported by Robin Bean and Pam Hollingshead |
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July 30, 1966 |
Villa Marina, Douglas, Isle of Man |
Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk, reported by Joyce Kelley. |
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August, 1966 |
9-day tour of Denmark |
Reported by Robin Bean |
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August 27, 1966 |
TV appearance on German TV's "Beat Club" episode 11 |
Bye-Bye Bird |
Performance
filmed at the Tiles Club, presumably the May 2, 1966 show, with Rod
Clarke on bass. Reported by Jens Pruess. A clip from this performance
can be found on the video/DVD Legend of a Band. |
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September 3, 1966 |
Jaarbeurs,
Utrecht, Holland (The Netherlands) |
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Tenbury Wells show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk, reported by Jens Pruess. Utrecht show date
reported as a concert review in "Kink" (a Dutch magazine), October 1,
1966, reported by Val Weston. The accompanying photo shows Rod Clarke,
Ray Thomas and Denny Laine on stage, but it is unknown whether Denny
and Rod played the show or if the new lineup was in place. Obviously the Moodies could not have played both Utrecht and Tenbury Wells in the same day. Since the Utrecht concert was reported as a review, it seems most likely. |
September 4, 1966 |
The Black Prince,
Bexley, UK |
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Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk, reported by Jens Pruess |
September 28, 1966 |
The Flamingo,
Sussex |
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With Justin Hayward and John Lodge replacing Denny Laine and Rod Clarke. Noted in "Melody Maker", September 24, 1966, reported by Robin Bean. |
The Fiesta,
Stockton (Newcastle?) |
The oft-told tale of the caberet gig after which a man came back stage and told the band that they were "rubbish", causing them to "ditch the blue suits and R&B" and begin writing and performing their own songs took place on a Saturday night at the Fiesta, in Stockton, according to Justin Hayward in the interview on the DVD An Audience with Justin Hayward at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the radio interview "Showcase of Rock - The Moody Blues Story" on September 16, 1994, John Lodge relates that the big change came after a show in Newcastle. A similar "epiphany" story is told by the band Sallies Fforth at www.radiolondon.co.uk/sixties/rainbowff/reccoll/rffstory.html, reported by Joyce Kelley, "At a local gig, the Ffolly supported the Moody Blues, who had just acquired members Lodge and Hayward. 'We wiped the floor with them,' remembers Roger (Newell), grinning. Four months later, both bands played Reading University. The Moodies, having changed their act completely, were performing Days of Future Passed, and now 'They were superb.' The Moodies confided in John Sparrowhawk that their first disastrous Ffolly encounter had made them look complete fools. It was a case of 'That other band was so much better than us. What are we going to do about it?' Subsequently, they came up with the idea of using a Mellotron to incorporate orchestral sounds into their music. 'The change of direction was completely down to that first gig with us,' says Roger." |
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October 12, 1966 |
"NEMS Enterprises (Brian Epstein) admits the Moody Blues have splitted [sic] up" |
Noted at www.dmbeatles.com/history.php?year=1966, reported by Joyce Kelley |
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October 21, 1966 |
Single Boulevard de la Madelaine / This Is My House released |
Single release noted at www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/britrock/60brchro/60brch66.html, reported by Joyce Kelley |
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November 5, 1966 |
Belgium and "on
the continent" |
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Press release
reported by Robin Bean. In the radio interview "Special of the Week" which aired in November 1978, Graeme Edge recalls that the band skipped out of England ahead of the bill collectors to spend about 3 months in Mucron, Belgium, and another 6 months in Paris working on their stage show before returning to England. |
Updated October 5, 2006 |